Blocking Ads: The dark side of ad blocking and its consequences

As Internet continues to evolve from just a concept more than a decade ago to it being called a network of networks, it has come a long way. Many years ago, companies used to be confined to a small geographical area for selling their products and when Internet came into picture, companies found that just [...]

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Xinu: An all-in-one tool for checking SEO related stuff of your site

I always wanted to have an online tool that can show me almost every aspect of search engine optimization related stuff of my websites on a single page and I have finally found something that matches very close to my requirement. It’s called Xinu and is quite remarkable. Now I no longer need to check [...]

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Finally an increase in traffic from Yahoo to my blog

I started blogging on this site in Nov’06 and since then it was always Google that referred the most of number of users from their search engine to my site for many articles that I have since posted. Yahoo on the other hand was very slow to pick up my pages despite the fact that [...]

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Wow! Premium AdSense Publishers can Link to Ads in their Newsletters

I am a subscriber of Moneycontrol.com which is one of the leading stock market related website in India. I regularly receive their newsletter by email that shows excerpts of their latest analysis and stock market related news and information. [See the screen shot below]. I had noticed it on various occasions that their newsletter contains [...]

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How Reliable is the Anti Spam Engine of GMail?

We all know how useful the anti-spam engines are that help us by handling most of the spam emails themselves and not let them make their way into our inbox. But what would you say if these anti-spam engines mark your legitimate emails as spam and because you don’t look inside your spam folder under [...]

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FeedBurner Stats PRO and MyBrand Services are NOW Free for Everyone

Good news for users of FeedBurner services. After the recent acquisition of FeedBurner by Google, the PRO services are now available for free to everyone.
FeedBurner Stats PRO will show you the number of people who have viewed or clicked individual content items in your feed and “Reach,” which estimates the daily number of subscribers who [...]

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Search Engine Traffic has Better Ad CTR than Digg Traffic

Yes! You read it right. Traffic from search engines, specially Google, yields to higher CTR (Click Through Ratio) when compared to traffic from Digg. This difference is as much as 3 times, which means that the visitors are 3 times more likely to click on your ads if they come from Google when compared to [...]

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